PowerShell for the DBA Search the Windows Event Logs for Errors

This is a very simple script - but it's one I run each morning. It searches the Windows System Event Log for an error condition. You can replace "System" here with "Application" or "Security", or any of the other logs that are created on your Windows Server. This is run at the server, since I have each server check itself and make a file of the results - then I swing by and pick up the files each morning with another script that builds a web page.

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